The Entrepreneurship Degree - Maybe It's Just Me, But WTF?

[NashVegas]

http://www.belmont.edu/ce/

Basically the goal of the program is teach the kids to come up with business plans to lure investors with. One of our interns showed me his senior project. It had lots of pretty charts and analyses.

Does it get any more cynical than this?

[jody]

1. What courses do you find objectionable in the degree? n/t

[geek_sabre]

2. .... why is this bad? did I miss something?

Entrepreneurs create most jobs in this country. What would you prefer these students study? If their goal is to start a business, this program seems to give them the tools they need to get started and avoid the things that lead many new businesses to fail before they get off the ground. They even provide space for students to set up businesses right on campus, so they can learn first hand what it takes. Unlike many fluffy college degrees, people leaving this program will be equipped to do more than serve coffee.

[SCBeeland]

3. Does it teach how to make others do the real work?

Name me an entrepreneur willing to work beside his workers and sweat all day long with them, and one who actually cares that they go home to bills they can't pay, and might be willing to give them a raise, even if it means he has to limit his share of what the company makes to a mere 90%, as opposed to 95%.

[NashVegas]

4. I Had One of Those

In the early 1990s. The pay was absolute crap, BUT, the owner worked his ass off, also, and allowed the place to be an environment where creative people could really learn and flourish. It was the type of place you would go for a few years and then go on to much bigger and better things because of what you learned there. At least we had profit-sharing.

[AdHocSolver]

5. The purpose of teaching them about a business plan is so that they can get a corporate job.

When people have trouble getting capital to buy goods, why would you think some bank is going to loan an inexperienced young person money to start a business? This is nonsense.

It would be better to teach young people how to be astute consumers, live within their means, and not spend all of their earnings on over-priced, throwaway crap. Young people should be taught how to recognize a Ponzi scheme, and to avoid being taken in by fraud.

Finally, bring family supporting jobs back to the U.S. Teach them that importing everything you need by running up a huge debt causes devaluation of the dollar and rampant inflation. There is a reason why prices are going up rapidly, including the cost of gasoline and everything else.

There is NO "free trade". Trade and international finance are controlled by multinational corporations through cartel agreements such as NAFTA, WTO, IMF, etc. The small entrepreneur does NOT stand a chance.